Kuo

At the 2020 census, 7,896 Americans bore the surname Kuo — 4,346th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 37,900.

By the numbers

People: 7,896
Rank: 4,346th
How common: 1 in 37,900
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

From cmn 郭.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kuo described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 92.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
White, not Hispanic 2.7%
Hispanic or Latino 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.01%

Notable people called Kuo

Shen Kuo (1031–1095)Chinese scientist and statesman
Amber Kuo (born 1986)Taiwanese actress and singer
Puff Kuo (born 1988)Taiwanese singer, actress and model
Zhao Kuo (250 BC–259 BC)general of the State of Zhao in Warring States period

People named Kuo with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.